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Extract from the Prelude - William Wordsworth
- context
- extract from 14 books
that make up "the
prelude", titled
childhood and
school-time
- romantic poet - appriciation
and love for nature - exploring
connection between natura
and human emotion
- looks at the
way the way
human
identity is
shaped by
experience
- changed the way people
thought about the natural
world
- believed nature
controlled
mankind
- born in the lake
district, influence
on his wrtting
- extract from 14 books
that make up "the
prelude", titled
childhood and
school-time
- content
- begins on a summer evening when the
narrator finds a boat tied to a tree,
unties/steals it to take it out on the lake
- initially seems happy
and confident,
descrtibes beautiful
scene - mountain
appears and changes to
fear of its size and
power - realisation
- turns the boat
around and goes
home, changing his
view of nature
- begins on a summer evening when the
narrator finds a boat tied to a tree,
unties/steals it to take it out on the lake
- form
- first-person narrative,
personal and describes
turning point in poets life
- use of blank verse
(unrhymed verse in
iambic pentameter)
creates serious and
important tone
- regular rhyme scheme
makes it sound like a
natural speech
- first-person narrative,
personal and describes
turning point in poets life
- structure
- three main
sections, 1 - tone
is light and
carefree, 2 -
distinct change
when mountain
appears, darker
and fearful, 3 -
reflects on how
expeirence has
changed him
- three main
sections, 1 - tone
is light and
carefree, 2 -
distinct change
when mountain
appears, darker
and fearful, 3 -
reflects on how
expeirence has
changed him
- language
- beautiful
- poem begins with a series
of prettym pastoral images
of nature, reflecting his
appriciation
- poem begins with a series
of prettym pastoral images
of nature, reflecting his
appriciation
- confident
- appears sure of himself at
first, almost arrogant in his
view of himself and place
in the world, feels powerful
- appears sure of himself at
first, almost arrogant in his
view of himself and place
in the world, feels powerful
- dramatic
- initial glimpses of
threatening language
become more intense after
mountain appears - power of
nature
- initial glimpses of
threatening language
become more intense after
mountain appears - power of
nature
- fearful
- far less confident at
end of extract,
troubled by the
"huge and mighty
forms", hsving a
lasting, haunting
effect on him
- far less confident at
end of extract,
troubled by the
"huge and mighty
forms", hsving a
lasting, haunting
effect on him
- beautiful
- attitudes
- confidence
- the narrator feels comfertable and in control,
but shaken by his realisation of the power of
nature
- the narrator feels comfertable and in control,
but shaken by his realisation of the power of
nature
- fear
- nature is shown to be more
powerful than human beings, left
with feeling of awe and respect,
but also scared by nature
- nature is shown to be more
powerful than human beings, left
with feeling of awe and respect,
but also scared by nature
- reflection
- ends with narrator reflecting on
how hes been changed by the
event, thoughts and dreams
troubled by this
- ends with narrator reflecting on
how hes been changed by the
event, thoughts and dreams
troubled by this
- confidence
- unclear identity,
earlier poem
suggests nature
has been
personified to
express its power
- "led by her"
- "led by her"
- showing the inferiority of
man-made ideas in contrast
to nature, idea of it being
controlled by the tree
- "little boat tied to a
willow tree"
- "little boat tied to a
willow tree"
- sense of desperation
due to stealing the boat,
portrays his
appriciation for nature
- " I unloosed her chain"
- " I unloosed her chain"
- secretive and guilty pleasure, knows what hes doing
is wrong yet desire is so great he disregards it,
proves weakness of man
- "it was an act of stealth"
- "it was an act of stealth"
- succession of the sound "I"
creates a flow, mirroring the
boat flowing gently through
the water
- "leaving behind her still -
until they melted all - of
sparkling light"
- "leaving behind her still -
until they melted all - of
sparkling light"
- self-confidence/arrogance,
ironic as he later looses all
confidence, contrasts
- "proud of his skill - with an
unswerving line"
- "proud of his skill - with an
unswerving line"
- emptiness contrasts with line 22,
when he looks at horizon again,
making its appearance seem
more shocking and powerful
- "the horizons utmost boundary,
far above, was nothing but the
stars and the grey sky"
- "the horizons utmost boundary,
far above, was nothing but the
stars and the grey sky"
- metaphor of a "fairy
boat" makes scene
seem magical and
otherwordly, but still
not threatening, idea
of a small boat,
inferior to nature
- "she was an elfin
pinnace"
- "she was an elfin
pinnace"
- "when" - sudden and abrupt
change/volta representing
shock, surprise to him
- juxtaposes insignficance and
smallness of boat and the initial
boundary, is almost intimidating
- "a huge peak, black and
huge"
- "a huge peak, black and
huge"
- mountain
personified, creates
an ugly image that
contrasts to the
previous imagrey of
the boat "elfin",
"swan"
- "upreared its head"
- "upreared its head"
- as if narrator is trying to
escape yet is unable, like a
nightmare
- "I struck and stuck
again, and growing
in still stature"
- "I struck and stuck
again, and growing
in still stature"
- sibilance creates
a synister tone, as
if a nightmare
- "struck, still,
stature, shape,
stars, still, seemed"
- "struck, still,
stature, shape,
stars, still, seemed"
- mountain is calm.,
powerful and in control,
contrasts with the
narrators fear
- "purpose of its own, measured
motion, strode after me"
- "purpose of its own, measured
motion, strode after me"
- afraid and guilty, contrasts to
previous moods, wants to hide
away and feels like intruder
- "stole and covert"
- "stole and covert"
- mood upturned due to his
experience, synister tone
again, reminds him of his own
mortality
- "in grave and serious mood"
- "in grave and serious mood"
- proves great impact,
scarred him
- "for many days"
- "for many days"
- vague language shows
narrator cant comprehend
what hes seen, so taken
back by the experience
- "dim and
undetermined
sense of unknown
modes of being"
- "dim and
undetermined
sense of unknown
modes of being"
- feels unsettled and
alone, contrasting to
inital mood
- "there hung a darkness, call it solitude"
- "there hung a darkness, call it solitude"
- no longer sees nature as
beautiful, more of an ugly
image created
- "no pleasant image of
trees, of sea or sky"
- "no pleasant image of
trees, of sea or sky"
- nature described as
powerful, conscious being
that can control mankind
- "but huge and mighty
forms, that do not live like
living men"
- "but huge and mighty
forms, that do not live like
living men"
- unsettling image, helps us to empathise
with him, contrast to tone and mood at start
- "trouble to my dreams"
- "trouble to my dreams"
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